kŝ ē-̆ ro- (*ĝhē-̆ ro-)

    kŝ ē-̆ ro- (*ĝhē-̆ ro-)

    English meaning: dry; bright (of weather)

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “trocken”; vom Himmel and Wetter also “dry = hell, klar”

    Material: Gk. ξερόν (only acc.) “festes, trockenes Land”, lengthened grade ξηρός “dry, arid”; compare above S. 624 O.Ind. kṣará-; common O.Ind. ĝh- > kṣ- phonetic mutation Lat. serescunt (Lucil. I 306) “(die dress) dry (in the sun)”, serēnus “cheerful, bright, clear, bright, dry” (of sky, heaven and weather); O.H.G. serawēn “dry become, tabescere, languere, marcere”, M.H.G. Ger. serben “ wilt, wilted; faded, flaccid, withered become”; Toch. A ksär(k) “ morning “? Daß k̂sē̆-ro- eine extension from k̂sü- “burn, versengen” sei, is probably.

    References: WP. I 503, Schwyzer Gk. I 329.